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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 55

The Servicemen's Settlement Act, 1950—Notice Declaring Land Taken for Settlement of Discharged Servicemen

WHEREAS an application has been made for the consent of the Land Valuation Court to a transaction which relates to the land described in the Schedule hereto, and to which Part II of the Servicemen's Settlement Act 1950, applies:

And whereas the purchaser of the said land is neither a discharged serviceman nor a child or grandchild of the vendor:

And whereas the Land Valuation Committee to which the said application was referred, not being satisfied that the Crown had decided not to acquire or arrange for the acquisition of the said land, did on the 3rd day of July, 1951, adjourn the said application:

Now, therefore, the Minister of Lands, acting in pursuance of section 31 of the said Act, doth hereby declare that the said land is taken for the settlement of discharged servicemen, and hereby specifies the 1st day of August, 1951, as the date on which the said land shall be deemed to be vested in His Majesty the King.

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SCHEDULE

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT

ALL that parcel of land in the Southland Land District containing by admeasurement four hundred (400) acres, more or less, being Sections 236 and 271, Block VII, Forest Hill Hundred, and being all the land in certificates of title, Volume 85, folio 45, and Volume 70, folio 75 (Southland Land Registry).

As witness my hand this 13th day of July, 1951.

E. B. CORBETT, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. H.O. 36/1444/2329 ; D.O. 51/193)

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Extension of Double Taxation Agreement Between the United Kingdom and New Zealand

Ministry of External Affairs,
Wellington, 12th July, 1951.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Double Taxation Agreement between the United Kingdom and New Zealand of 27th May, 1947, will be extended to the Governments of certain colonial territories as from 11th August, 1951. The names of the territories, the dates from which the extension will be effective in relation to them, and the taxes concerned are as follows:—

The extension will have effect in New Zealand, as respects income-tax, for the year of assessment beginning on the 1st day of April, 1951, and subsequent years; as respects social security charge on salary and wages as from the 1st day of April, 1951; and as respects social security charge on income other than salaries and wages for the financial year beginning on the 1st day of April, 1950, and subsequent years.

F. W. DOIDGE, Minister of External Affairs.

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Declaring Area to be a Closely Populated Locality for the Purposes of the Transport Act, 1949, Section 36

IN terms of section 36 of the Transport Act, 1949, the Minister of Transport doth hereby declare the area described in the Schedule hereto to be within a closely populated locality for the purposes of the said section to the intent that a person driving any motor-vehicle on any road therein shall be subject to the maximum speed limit of thirty miles an hour fixed by the said section.

SCHEDULE

Situated within Waitaki County:—

All that area at Lake Waitaki Village consisting of the Pukeuri-Kurow-Omarama Main Highway No. 122, commencing at its junction with the access road to the Lake Waitaki Power-station and terminating at a point 80 chains measured along the said main highway in a north-westerly direction from the said junction.

Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of July, 1951.

W. S. GOOSMAN, Minister of Transport.

(TT. 9/15/151)

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Revoking Portion of a Warrant Excluding Roads from Limitation as to Speed Imposed by the Transport Act, 1949, Section 36

IN terms of section 36 of the Transport Act, 1949, the Minister of Transport doth hereby revoke that portion of the Warrant dated the 21st day of December, 1936,* which applies to the road described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE

SITUATED within Putaruru Town District:—

Waitoa-Taupo Main Highway No. 19 (all that portion from the north-eastern boundary of Putaruru Town District to the junction of the main highway with Margaret Street, a distance of approximately 48 chains).

Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of July, 1951.

W. S. GOOSMAN, Minister of Transport.

(TT. 9/15/178)

N.Z. Gazette, No. 92, 22nd December, 1936, page 2511.

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Consent to Erection of “Stop” Sign by the Auckland City Council

PURSUANT to clause (5) of regulation 3 of the Traffic Sign Regulations 1937, the Minister of Transport doth hereby consent to the erection of a traffic sign of Class E by the Auckland City Council at the place described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE

SITUATED within the City of Auckland:—

In Brighton Road, at its intersection with St. Stephens Avenue, so as to face traffic proceeding in a north-westerly direction along Brighton Road.

Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of July, 1951.

W. S. GOOSMAN, Minister of Transport.

(TT. 9/2/3)

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Exemption Order Under the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940

PURSUANT to the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940, the Minister of Transport doth hereby order and declare that the provisions of clause (1) of regulation 7 of the said regulations, so far as they relate to the driving of heavy-trade motors, shall not apply to the person hereinafter mentioned, but in lieu thereof the following provision shall apply:—

A motor-driver's licence issued under the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940 to the person described in Column 1 of the Schedule hereunder may authorize him to drive a heavy-trade motor in the course of his employment on a farm or market-garden of the employer described in Column 2 of the said Schedule, but shall not authorize him, while he is under the age of eighteen years, to drive a heavy-trade motor for any other purpose.

SCHEDULE

Column 1 (Driver). Column 2 (Employer).
John Rex Grant .. Arthur D. McKay, Longbush R.D., Masterton.

Dated at Wellington, this 10th day of July, 1951.

W. S. GOOSMAN, Minister of Transport.

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Election of Producers' Representatives on the Hop Marketing Committee

PURSUANT to the Hop Marketing Regulations 1939, made under the Marketing Act, 1936, and the Agriculture (Emergency Powers) Act, 1934, notice is hereby given that a copy of the roll of producers qualified to vote at the elections to be held following the closing of nominations on the second Wednesday in the month of August, 1951, of producers' representatives on the Hop Marketing Committee established by the said regulations, are now available for public inspection during ordinary office hours at the undermentioned post-offices for a period ending on the 25th day of July, 1951:—

Nelson. Upper Moutere.
Motueka.

Dated at Wellington, this 16th day of July, 1951.

R. W. I. MILLAR, Returning Officer.